Books Published in November 1985

New Books List: 327 titles

  • Maximilian's Gold

    J.D. Hardin

  • Cocaine Run

    Jerry Ahern

  • Up the Chimney Down and Other Stories

    Joan Aiken

    The last chimney cuckoo -- Miss Hotting's legacy -- The gift-giving -- The dog on the roof -- The missing heir -- Up the chimney down -- Christmas at Troy -- The midnight rose -- The happiest sheep in London -- The fire dogs -- Potter's gray....

  • Senior Prom

    Patricia Aks

  • Song of Years

    Bess Streeter Aldrich

  • Whispers in Eden

    Marsha Alexander

    HIS WAS THE HOUSE THAT LIES BUILT Private detective Autumn Raintree knew all about men like tabloid publisher Justin O'Neal. Her closest relative had been heartlessly destroyed by yellow journalism. Autumn had no scruples about going undercover...

  • Naughty, But Nice

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    THEY CAME FROM THE SAME TOWN Tamara Smith became a teacher in the local high school. She had a reputation for lawlessness -- but she lived by her rules and wasn't afraid to flout town opinion for what she believed was right. Impulsive, indepen...

  • Stranger in Town

    Kerry Allyne

    Only love would change her mind Kendra loved Goldfield, a mining community in northern Queensland, but not its daydreaming prospectors. And now her brother had brought one home to help her in the store! Rogan Faulkner, however, was undeniably h...

  • The Language of the Heart

    Jeanne Anders

    There are many ways to say "I love you." Sometimes the most eloquent is without any words at all... Carrie Craig recognizes God's love everywhere -- in the first crocuses of the Midwestern spring, in the tentative smile of a lonely child, even in t...

  • Hooray for Homicide

    James Anderson

    TWO MURDERS MOST FOUL...AND THREE CHEERS FOR THE LADY WHO DISCOVERS WHODUNIT! Cabot Cove's own best-selling mystery writer, Jessica Fletcher, is busy slaying her latest victim (fictional, of course) when two real life homicides turn her once m...

  • Add a Dash of Love

    Barbara Andrews

    Gregory Kent, owner of the Turkey Haven restaurants, was too self-assured, too handsome, for his own good. And he made cookbook author Martha Graves an offer that seemed too good to be true. He wanted her to become publicity spokesperson for his new ...

  • The Story of Harold

    Terry Andrews

    The Story of Harold is a Dantesque excursion through a garden of tortured and unfulfilled relationships: one with a woman whom Terry Andrews sleeps with and cares for, but cannot love completely, another with a surgeon, father of six, who is Terry's ...

  • Norby and the Invaders

    Janet Asimov

  • The Dead of Winter

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: ROBIN W...

  • Night of the Phoenix

    Richard Austin

    HEARTLAND INVADED The long nuclear winter has ended. But a storm has broken over America. The name of the storm is Yevgeny Maximov, dictator of the Federated States of Europe, freedom's greatest enemy. Heartland has fallen. President MacGregor ...

  • Shadows Along the Ice

    Judy Baer

    Pamela is determined to tame the tiger. PAMELA WARREN--Pamela's first assignment as a sports reporter is an interview with hockey player Tyler Evans, the "tiger of the ice." It's the hardest thing she's ever had to do, but in an unguarded moment h...

  • The Unlimited Dream Company

    Peggy Ballard

  • Sakkara

    Noel Barber

    Cairo, 1919. Egypt, choked by centuries of corruption and decay, is seething with rival factions battling to take control. For Mark Holt, heir to one of Cairo's ruling British families, it is a time of great excitement-and even greater danger. Trappe...

  • Reprisal

    Ian Barclay

    When Ahmed Hasan, a religious fanatic with nuclear technology in his power, takes over the Egyptian government and poses a deadly threat to the turbulent Middle East, professional assassin Richard Dartley is hired to destroy him....

  • Siren's Song

    Linda Barlow

    Bewitchingly beautiful Cat MacFarlane appears to be a simple balladeer living in her grandfather's castle on Aberdeen Island, but government agent Rob Hepburn suspects she's consorting with criminals. Darkly intriguing Rob claims he's an astronome...

  • Fete Fatale

    Robert Barnard

    AN OCCASION FOR MURDER Father Battersby, the new vicar, was scandalously High Church. Worse still, he was celibate...a condition totally unacceptable to the women of Hexton. Their minds made up, an unwelcoming committee had already formed. The town'...

  • The Condo Kill

    Richard Barth

  • Where's the Bear

    Byron Barton

  • To Fill a Silence

    Jayne Bauling

    Had he married her on impulse? Nick Rosney, celebrated television reporter, had acted as if his marriage to eighteen-year-old Belle Tyler were some sort of joke, a stunt to shock his friends. Belle's feelings for Nick had always been more t...

  • Chip Has Many Brothers

    Hans Baumann

  • A Handful of Heaven

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    SEAT BELTS FASTENED! Raine Michaels was soaring her way to the top, successfully managing her own consulting firm. When she made contact with Ashe Elliot, an ace pilot who reveled in danger and excitement, passion took control. Raine had seen h...

  • The Mysterious Toyshop

    Cyril W. Beaumont

  • The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost

    John Bellairs

    Thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon, possessed by the ghost of the evil Warren Windrow, is dying. And it seems as if there is nothing anyone can do. In a desperate effort to save Johnny's life, his two best friends, Professor Childermass and Fergie, race ...

  • Alethea

    Pamela Belle

    The saga of the Heron family in 17th-Century England continues with the story of Alethea, daughter of Simon and Thomazine, protagonists of The Moon in the Water and The Chains of Fate. At 11, Alethea is sent to live with relatives in London to study ...

  • The Grim Smile of the Five Towns

    Arnold Bennett

    Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a prolific British writer and journalist.  Bennett is popular for fiction such as The Old Wives’ Tale and also for non-fiction works such as How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and Mental Efficiency.  This edition...

  • Rendezvous 2.2

    Robert D. Bennett

  • Family Fortunes

    Elaine Bissell

    saga of beautiful women and the men they love chronicles Lawrence Kendall's acquisition of a fabulous fortune, his passion for Elizabeth Stuart, and the lives and careers of Kendall's daughter, Caroline, and Gail Halloran, a Kendall household servant...

  • Out of Control

    Sam Bittman

  • Lawless Love

    Rosanne Bittner

    RULED BY HIS GUN When Moss Tucker smelled danger he shot it, when he needed shelter he grabbed it--and when he wanted a woman's touch he bought it. Then he saw Amanda Boone's sparkling azure eyes and the tough, steely outlaw couldn't get her out o...

  • All Our Secrets

    Cynthia Blair

    Four different women--Dana, Carrie, Stephanie, and Natalie--who once shared a special summer as fourteen-year-olds at Camp Wilderness, face new problems, secrets, loves, and torments amid the excitement, glamour, and turbulence of New York...

  • Taken by Storm

    Laurien Blair

    AS IF NICK JARROS didn't have enough trouble raising a teenage daughter on his own, he now had to contend with some harebrained advice columnist who called herself Aunt Miranda. But no Miss Lonely Hearts was going to get away with giving idiotic adv...

  • Bubbie and Zadie Come to My House

    Daniel Halevi Bloom

  • The Visitors

    Ronald Blythe

  • What's to Become of the Boy

    Heinrich Boll

    The Nobel Prize-winning writer recounts events of four crucial years of his adolescence, 1933 to 1937, years during which he, his family, his school, and his Cologne neighborhood experienced the intensifying impact of Nazism...

  • Palm Beach

    Pat Booth

    Sun, sex, sin, and scandal in the small town with big money. Town of the super-rich, the super-spoiled, the super-ruthless. Land of sun-drenched parties...where status and power are pursued relentlessly. All her life, beautiful but poor a...

  • The Down East Murders

    J.S. Borthwick

    Working on the Godding Museum's annual local artist show is the perfect way for English teacher Sarah Deane to earn a few dollars, relax in the sun and sea air of coastal Maine, and spend the summer with her boyfriend, Dr. Alex McKenzie. But when ...

  • Landslide Victory

    Barbara Boswell

    It seemed to Stacey Lipton that she and Justin Marks had always been adversaries: she, the willful daughter of a conservative Senator, delighted in shattering the perfect political image that Justin, her father's longtime aide, tried so hard to pres...

  • Lucinda Brayford

    Martin Boyd

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Hawk's Flight

    Annette Broadrick

    MORE THAN A MEMORY When Dr. Paige Winston came to following a plane crash in the wilderness, the only thing she knew for sure was that she wasn't alone. The rest of her life was a blank. The man who had nursed her during her concussion claimed ...

  • Wouldn't It Be Funny If -

    Mik Brown

  • Riley in the Morning

    Sandra Brown

    Jon Riley and Brin Cassidy had begun married life as the perfect team - star and producer of the top-rated morning talk show, and wildly in love off-camera. But something had gone wrong, had turned the lovely picture into a bad dream. When Riley sudd...

  • Someday With My Father

    Helen Elizabeth Buckley

  • Christmas with Ida Early

    Robert Burch

  • Kimberley

    Colin Burke

  • Intimate Connections

    David D. Burns

    In this breakthrough book, Dr. David Burns, M.D., author of the bestselling Feeling Good, applies the proven principles of Cognitive Therapy to eliminating the negative thinking and low self-esteem that causes loneliness and shyness. With sensible an...

  • All These Earths

    F.M. Busby

  • Love Storm

    Cordia Byers

    VIRGINAL AND PROUD, YET IMPRISONED AS A WHORE ...Beautiful young Storm Kingsley faces an unjust sentence of seven years' servitude in the far-off American colonies. Yet in her journey across the sea, Captain Thor Wakefield buys her servitude -- and ...

  • Shadow Mansion

    Lee Calif

    Seventeen-year-old Shadow had shivered at her first glimpse of the mist-enshrouded San Francisco mansion that was her new home. Even more chilling was the icy welcome of her relatives. She found it strange that her uncle wouldn't let her out of t...

  • Million-Dollar Lover

    Blair Cameron

    For lunch. Keira Martyn played Lotto; for dinner, she depended on the men she could charm into picking up the check. The salary of a Tacoma, Washington, department store clerk was barely enough to buy lipstick, let alone lasagna. And real estate inve...

  • After the Stars Fall

    Bethany Campbell

    "Your father loved you," Zack told her gently "Near the end he was in terrible shape," he added. "He never got over losing you." Zack knelt beside her and took her in his arms. " `Beautiful blue-eyed Jay Jay, the pretti...

  • Natural Attraction

    Marisa Carroll

    It was more than he'd bargained for A week's isolation on a spit of land off the New Hampshire coast was a sure-fire cover story for Mark Elliot's magazine -- if he lived to tell it. Before he'd even left the dock, though, the Meye...

  • Growing Season

    Alden R. Carter

  • The Tarlov Cipher

    Nick Carter

  • One Boy Too Many

    Marian Caudell

    Until now, Jenny Warner's love life has been nothing but dreams of the heroes in her favourite romance novels. Real-life Matt Hunter is nothing like Jenny's quiet, mysterious ideal boy - he's friendly and outgoing. And he's determined...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Ginger Chambers

    It was easy for Kathy Stevens, newly graduated marine biologist, newest Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employee, to come back home to the Texas Gulf Coast, back to her beloved Bay Area. But she could never have contrived the circumstances that m...

  • Look Beyond Tomorrow

    Sara Chance

    LOVE ON HER MIND A nationally famous mind reader, Isis O'Shea was used to the attention her psychic gift and exotic beauty invited. She usually had a sixth sense about people, but from the moment the rather conservative James Leland first appeare...

  • The Conviction of Charlotte Grey

    Jeanne Cheyney

    An impoverished English gentlewoman, Charlotte Grey finds herself at the mercy of a ruthless employer, whose son, a wealthy merchant, is strangely touched by her quiet faith. While Ben Tellison is away on business for the king, Charlotte is falsely a...

  • Flower of the Sea

    Amanda Clark (1)

    She belonged to the sea... sun-kissed and with eyes the color of the shallows on a summer day. Yet March Raffin wanted nothing more than to settle her father's estate, dispose of their island home in the Bahamas, and get on with her life in New Y...

  • Golden Days

    Kathy Clark

    It was a long time since Sunny Day's last hit record and high time for the ravishing country-and-western singer to make her comeback. Long ago she'd traded thoughts of lasting romance for bright lights, fame, and applause. But when she was of...

  • The Remembering Box

    Eth Clifford

  • Critic's Choice

    Sue Ellen Cole

    BEHIND THE SCENES Vea Valdez, L.A.'s most influential film critic, was both beautiful and acid-tongued. While millions of adoring fans thought Rafe Dougin, the lanky, maddeningly self-assured hero of countless Westerns, was the sexiest man ali...

  • Applegate Landing

    Jean Conrad

    Gloriana Windemere arrives in Oregon Territory, expecting to face a trackless wilderness and hostile Indians. Instead, she discovers thriving settlements like Applegate Landing and a hostile frontiersman, Graham Norton. Gloriana finds herself clashin...

  • Getting Experienced

    Linda A. Cooney

    When Kristin Sullivan arrives at Sunset High from Minnesota, she feels like a fish out of water. Beverly Hills is a world apart from her mid-western hometown, and her sophisticated classmates make her feel hopelessly naive. Befriended by Monica Mille...

  • A Chance to Make It

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Sworn Enemies

    M.E. Cooper

    Winner take all.... Beautiful, wealthy, and spoiled, Laurie Bennington is used to having things her way. So when Lars Olsen tells her their romance is finished, Laurie intends to make him regret it. She'll become Kennedy High's next vice president, ...

  • With Marriage in Mind

    Dorothy Cork

    MARRIAGE ON HER MIND Disenchanted with the hectic pace of her life, Noeline decided that a quiet vacation was the perfect cure. But Beaudesert turned out to be more than a sleepy sheep station. Sprawled along the sun-baked plains of Australia, this p...

  • Message for Jesse

    Patricia Coughlin

    She'd do almost anything to arouse his interest The minute Jesse McPherson flashed into view, Kali Spencer was hooked. To no avail. Models usually had men swarming all over them -- yet this fabulous guy was avoiding her. Kali had no choice but...

  • Simba Gold

    Donald Courtney

    They were the best soldiers money could buy: stone-cold mercenaries who'd chosen to kill for cash. But a shift in the winds of war made their African employers their enemy, and they were suddenly a tough fighting division alone on a continent shatter...

  • Secret Lover

    Kathryn Cranmer

    Why had fate played such a trick on her? Helen could hardly refuse to help Matt Seymour when he blundered out of a snowstorm, carrying his sick little daughter to the door of Helen's remote English country cottage. But the chance meeting re...

  • High Risk

    Caitlin Cross

    HIGH RISK... It was not allowed in Paige Ann Bannister's life. She was a substitute mother to a little girl from a broken home. She wrote ordinary articles about the extraordinary clients of a public-relations firm. She lived life from a safe di...

  • What's Right

    Melinda Cross

    The only thing right was their love... All her life Ruth Lyons, talented interior designer, had dreamed of a man who could match her fiery spirit. When she met Tray Hampton, it was as if she already knew him. Incredibly, he was that man. The in...

  • Moment of Madness

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    HOW TO SEDUCE A SEDUCER? That was the question that plagued Jennifer McCord. She had determined to live her life without a man, but Lucas DeSalva haunted her imagination. Jennifer worked as a translator for Lucas's company, but she had never se...

  • This Place to Honor

    Joseph Csida

    Three Indomitable Families... From 1824 to the present day, in the vibrant city where immigrants found wealth and power, the Morrisseys, the Kesslers, and a new generation on Van Gelders lived and died at 106 Rivington Street. For 150 years they sp...

  • American Vengeance

    John Cutter

  • Jinx on a Terran Inheritance

    Brian Daley

    A minor Old-Earth bureaucrat became the surprise inheritor of an interstellar spaceship, but there were a couple of minor problems. The will did not tell Floyt how to find the ship, and someone was trying to murder him and his friend Alacrity Fitzhug...

  • Sweeter Tomorrows

    Kit Daley

    One look in his smoky gray eyes and Sarah Phillips knew: To have such a man fall in love with her would be exhilarating, exciting -- and dangerous. Lord Justin Steele was a renowned English horse breeder. Thoroughbred racer. and bloodstock agent. The...

  • Unspoken Longings

    Dana Daniels

    She's known -- and secretly loved -- him since childhood. After the accident he became a special friend, staying by her side during months of convalescence. But Lesley Evans knows Joel Easterwood will never return her unspoken longing. Though ...

  • The Impossible Woman

    Emma Darcy

    He thought marriage was some sort of trap Judy Campbell was youthful, petite and feminine--hardly the usual description of a truck-driving, sod-toting landscape gardener. But then, Malcolm Stewart was no ordinary client, either. The celebrated ...

  • Eclipse

    Hughes de Montalembert

    This autobiography is the story of a successful painter who becomes blinded after two attackers throw acid in his face, his fight against the limitations of darkness, and of the humorous, frustrating, and exhilarating moments marking his efforts to r...

  • Lola

    Delacorta

  • In the Face of My Enemy

    Joseph H. Delaney

    HE WAS BORN BEFORE MAN COULD MEASURE TIME--HE WILL LEAD US ALL TO THE STARS. Eighteen thousand years ago a priest ascended a high place, there to hold converse with his gods. That night the gods chose to bless him with their physical reality. Alas...

  • Death of a Nymph

    David Delman

  • Word of Honor

    Nelson DeMille

    He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity -- and t...

  • First Love, Last Love: New Fiction from Christopher Street

    Michael Denneny

  • Invaders!

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Beyond the Dar Al-Harb

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Jami al-Kafir, a young Scottish prince turned bodyguard for a jewel merchant in Ayla, is tricked by an unscrupulous Persian sorcerer into kidnapping an exquisite and enchanted young woman called the White Flower...

  • Revenge of the Desert Phantom

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Skyfire Puzzle

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Strangers and Lovers

    David Drake

  • Spring Madness

    Aimee Duvall

    Teaming up with station owner Kyle Rager isn't what deejay Meg Randall had in mind, but when an emergency forces them to work together, the KHAY air waves sizzle. Suddenly, Meg, who'll do anything to captivate her listeners, and Kyle, whose r...

  • A Class Act

    Kathleen Eagle

    A CLASS ACT... that was Carly Austin. High class all the way. She'd been out of Rafe Strongheart's reach in high school, and as far as he was concerned nothing had changed. He was still the Indian boy from the wrong side of the tracks, and...

  • Wine of Life

    Lesley Egan

    L.A. attorney Jessie Falkenstein must discover why a healthy young man would kill himself before signing his will and why a brooch found near the body could mean the difference between suicide and murder...

  • The Solace of Open Spaces

    Gretel Ehrlich

    These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer -- “Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of docu...

  • Lone Star and the California Oil War

    Wesley Ellis

    BLACK GOLD FEVER! Oil is discovered on Starbuck territory, and the Lone Star team is in for big trouble when someone else lays claim to the land. Jessie and Ki suspect the Cartinas clan has been put up to no good, but before the duo can discover who...

  • Gun Man

    Loren D. Estleman

    After killing for the first time in his life, Eugene must run for his life. Calling himself John Miller, he joins the legendary Missouri militia. As the casualties mount, stories of his fearsome exploits spread throughout the West, and his gun-slingi...

  • Longarm and the Tenderfoot

    Tabor Evans

    THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Four million dollars in bonds and an invaluable railroad deed are missing from the Santa Fe line. U.S. Marshal Custis Long is sent to track them down. His first clue turns out to be a very dead end, but with the help of a l...

  • Alone

    Beverley Farmer

  • Three Boulevard Farces

    Georges Feydeau

  • Cute Is Not a Complmnt

    Peter Filichia

  • Dinner along the Amazon

    Timothy Findley

    Here is the powerful, haunting "Lemonade,"where a young boy's world is shattered by his mother's self-destruction, and eleven other stories, including "Dinner along the Amazon,"an unusual journey into the complexities of contemporary relationships....

  • Bad Girls

    Mary Flanagan

  • The Last Frontier

    Rebecca Flanders

    It began as a challenge... For Dallas McCabe, America's most famous reporter, no problem was too complex, no injustice too minor. She would do anything for a story. Even trek up a mountain outside Burrowsville, South Carolina, through fourteen...

  • Red Rock Redhead

    Dirk Fletcher

  • The Endless Game

    Bryan Forbes

  • Preserver

    M.A. Foster

    TERAGON Planet of darkness revolving around a white dwarf sun. Teragon, a world that by all the rules of science had no right to exist, a planet where law and order were an individual matter and only the strong, the quick and the clever could long s...

  • Your Obedient Servant

    Elsie Gage

    LORDLY INTENTIONS Found as a baby abandoned on a farmer's doorstep, Laura Adams was raised in humble circumstances by foster parents who taught her well the virtues of honesty and propriety. But now suddenly all was changed. The high-bor...

  • Annie Lash

    Dorothy Garlock

    STUBBORN, BEAUTIFUL, PASSIONATE... THAT WAS ANNIE LASH! When her parents died, lovely Annie Lash was left alone in old St. Louis -- a prize catch for the elderly suitors lined up at her door. But the willful lass would have none of them, for she y...

  • Mussolini : the Untold Story

    Alan Gelb

    A fictionalized biography of Il Duce traces the rise and fall of the Italian dictator, detailing Mussolini's obsession with power, devotion to family, passionate love affairs, association with Hitler, and impact on his country...

  • Yellow Angel

    Michael A. Gilbert

    The discovery of a missing stockpile of silium puts Elaine and Carson, executives of the Orbital Mining Company, on the track of Dr. Josef Meng, an insane genius who is planning a deadly experiment deep in the African jungle...

  • River To Rapture

    Louisa Gillette

    SHE WAS TRAPPED IN A PROPER WORLD OF INTRIGUE AND SOPHISTICATION UNTIL A BACKWOODS EXPLORER FREED HER WITH HIS LOVE! In the social whirl of 1840s Washington, D.C., Vesper Lawrence was a pawn for the underhanded schemes of her ambitious father--who...

  • The Matthews Affair

    Victoria Glenn

    FLASH FROM THE PAST At twelve years old, Denise had vowed never to forget Logan Matthews. He was her hero, the man who'd kept her alive m the bungle, soothed her with fairy tales and finally led her back to the safety of civilization. Eight yea...

  • A Coldhearted Man

    Lucy Gordon

    GUILTY AS CHARGED Helena Catesby had made many mistakes in her life, but she'd never broken the law. Now she was bedridden in a Venetian hospital, accused of drunk driving, possibly worse. She couldn't remember the accident, but she'd...

  • Man of Her Dreams

    Katherine Granger

    Jessie Dillon's seeking her one true love -- and Jake McGuire isn't it! Her new neighbor's devastating good looks, unfailing charm, and endearing quirks can't obliterate a fatal flaw. For he arouses in Jessie the one emotion she never...

  • Storm

    Vanessa Grant

    Luke could free her from the past Stranded by a fierce storm on an isolated island in the Queen Charlottes, Laurie was besieged by painful memories of another storm that had ended in tragedy. Luke Lucas, the hard-hitting pilot who landed them s...

  • Vengence Game

    Stephen Grave

  • Hearts Are Wild

    Janet Gray

    "Cool head, cool heart" is Emily Farrell's motto as she plays high-stakes poker to win back the big sums her gambling father lost. Though painful experience has taught her utter self-reliance, her composure falters when Michael Mategnas disconcerting...

  • The Spy's Bedside Book

    Graham Greene

    For everyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to be a spy, legendary author Graham Greene (The Third Man, The Quiet American) and his brother Hugh have compiled this irresistible selection of fiction, memoir, and tricks of the trade straigh...

  • The Deer Leap

    Martha Grimes

    All roads don't lead to the village of Ashdown Dean. The one that did led writer Polly Praed right to the police station ... to be questioned about a corpse. Poor Polly admitted to opening the phone booth door, but the dead woman had fallen out quite...

  • To Whom It May Concern

    David Gucwa

    An account of the remarkable behavior and graphic drawings of a thirteen-year-old female Asian elephant and of the various responses to her "work" is supplemented with fifty reproductions of the drawings...

  • The Witching

    Chet Hagan

    The old man had been brutally murdered. That much was clear. But when Sheriff Stauffer began his straightforward, by-the-book investigation, he never imagined that the case would lead into the strange and twisting byways of the supernatural. Murder...

  • Forgotten Love

    Phyllis Halldorson

    TENDER REMEMBRANCE Mercy West was married for six unforgettable months to a kind, loving man. But Andy had suffered from amnesia, and when they'd first met, he hadn't even known his name or where he was from. Then, as mysteriously as h...

  • A Little Love

    Virginia Hamilton

  • Loser Take All

    Rosemary Hammond

    Win or lose -- It was marriage Nicholas Curzon didn't exactly win Cara for his unwilling bride in a poker game. He won her father's two Charter fishing boats -- the source of the family's precarious livelihood. But in the end it was th...

  • Midnight Mirage

    Karen Harper

    MAGICAL DREAM Virile Tenn Sloper had his pick of lovely women, but when he gazed across the crowded hall at the brightly covered stage, he had eyes only for the sumptuous Susannah Arne. He wanted to see the radiant beauty beneath him in the throes o...

  • Blue Skies & Lollipops

    Janice Harrell

    When Trish agreed to follow her parents' suggestion and transfer from Millville High to snobbish Westover Academy, she didn't tell them the real motive for her compliance. How could she admit to them that the only reason she was taking such a radical...

  • Skyfall

    Harry Harrison

    Prometheus is the largest spacecraft ever built by man. A joint USA-USSR project, the gigantic ship weighs over 20,000 tons--and may be the ultimate solution to the world's energy needs. Like its mythical namesake, who stole fire from the gods and ga...

  • Bittersweet Storm

    Janis Harrison

  • Ashes and Ecstasy

    Catherine Hart

    WOULD THE FLAMES OF PASSION THAT MADE THEM ONE BE QUENCHED BY WAR, SEPARATION AND BETRAYAL? Ecstatically happy in her marriage to handsome gentleman pirate Reed Taylor, Kathleen was never far from her beloved husband's side -- until their idyllic ...

  • Amaryllis Dreaming

    Samantha Harvey

    Dreams have their own way of unfolding Katy had never known the security of a man's love. At nineteen, full of hopeful fantasies, she traveled to Amaryllis Island in search of Otto Legenda -- the man she thought might be her father. The tro...

  • Don't Walk Home Alone

    Beverly Hastings

  • The Nautilus Sanction

    Simon Hawke

    Time travel can be extremely hazardous to your health. Especially if, like Major Lucas Priest, you're an-agent of the elite Temporal Corps. Anytime, anywhere, the Time Wars could begin again ... Now the Nautilus, a Russian supersub armed with enou...

  • A Small Town

    Shelby Hearon

  • The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Robert A. Heinlein has written some of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, including the beloved classic STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. Now, in THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS, he creates his most compelling character ever: Dr. Richard A...

  • The Flint Lord

    Richard Herley

    Driven by the sinister forces of his own heritage, Brennis Gehan Fifth, Lord of Valdoe, is planning the genocide of the nomadic tribes who impede the spread of his empire in the land that was southern England of 5,000 years ago. With his army swelled...

  • Taxi Dancer

    Joe T. Heywood

    "As 50th anniversaries of the events of the Vietnam War happen for the next 10 years, this Lyons Press reissue of Taxi Dancer gives Joseph Heywood fans and others the opportunity to read his fictional account of that conflict''s air war through the e...

  • His Fair Lady

    Nancy Holder

    In costume Claire van Teiler was a vision from a medieval fantasy, an angel with a cloud of golden hair. When Jack Youngblood spotted her chasing what couldn't be a unicorn through his sister's backyard, he knew with breathtaking certainty that this...

  • The Mystery of the Hindu Temple

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Hardball

    Doug Hornig

  • Comet Halley

    Fred Hoyle

  • More Than a Memory

    Meg Hudson

    THE BOND WAS STRONGER THAN EVER Whenever she thought of Yugoslavia, Beth Melville remembered the handsome boatman who had given such a sweet-sad glow to her brief trip there. When they had parted, she was sure she would never see him again. But...

  • A Whisper Away

    Beverly Wilcox Hull

    One searing kiss and he knew her darkest secret. How could Irish O'Brien let devastating tax lawyer Geoffrey Winter shatter her protective shell? At twenty-eight, she was a successful illustrator--independent, content in her beach cottage in Westport...

  • Heart of the Storm

    Jillian Hunter

    LOVE'S PASSIONATE DESTINY Juliana Pendarvis was outraged. Without consulting her, her father had arranged for her to marry Adam Tremayne, the rough-hewn "colonial" who had come to Cornwall from America. Headstrong and defiant, Juliana insisted she...

  • What Goes Up, Must Come Down

    Johanna Hurwitz

  • Land God Gave to Cain

    Hammond Innes

    A young man battles the odds to rescue a lost explorer on Canada’s remote Labrador Peninsula in this “literate and exciting adventure story” (Kirkus Reviews). Radio operator James Ferguson was seriously wounded in a bombing mission during Worl...

  • Christopher and His King

    Christopher Isherwood

    Christopher Isherwood was one of the leading gay writers of the twentieth century. He belonged to the circles of W. H. Auden. His early fame came from stories entitled I Am a Camera, which were the source of the Broadway Musical Cabaret as well as th...

  • One Dream Only

    Claudia Jameson

    All he wanted was a mistress! When Ruth Boyd learned her fiance was in love with another woman she felt heartbroken. She firmly decided that the risks of love were too great ever to become involved with another man. So when her new boss, the ta...

  • Company Parade

    Storm Jameson

    "She was too restless to work or write. She thought of Richard, of her unmanageable desires and her unabateable ambitions...My life is in pieces, I am nothing, I have achieved nothing; yet I will, she thought." In the month of the 1918 Armistice a y...

  • In Shadow

    Trish Janeshutz

    The murder of Denise Markham, a pleasure-loving research chemist involved in the development of a potent cocaine substitute, leads police detective John Conway and amateur sleuth Rita Lincoln into an investigation into the Florida drug world...

  • Tennessee Sampler

    Peter Jenkins

  • One on One

    Jenna Lee Joyce

    It was an explosive combination... Scientist Julie Stites arrived in Hawaii intending to study volcanic activity there. Little did she know most of the fireworks would take place in her own private villa.... Sharing her romantic hideaway was no...

  • Harmony

    Janice Kaiser

    LOVING HIM WAS DEFINITELY A CONFLICT OF INTEREST! "Palimony." The word was bandied about a lot, but when it affected one of Lindsay's clients, the lawyer in Lindsay became outraged. The injustice of a rich man neglecting his duties to ...

  • Red Chameleon

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    This thrilling crime novel features the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko ( San Francisco Examiner ). After a lifetime in service to the Soviet Union, police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov may have found...

  • Tangled Mesh

    Lee Karr

    Deanna Waverly became involved in Jonathan Lareau's senatorial race because he promised to help her keep government missiles off her Colorado ranch. But she couldn't deny she was falling in love with the handsome face that graced his campaign...

  • Harvey's Last Chance

    Harriet Katz

  • Always Keep Him Laughing

    Molly Katz

    She was a stand-up comic who refused to take insults lying down. But Cale Fowler sent Sandy Shaw reeling at their first explosive encounter outside his jazz lounge, next to the club where she performed. She'd honed her wit to a cutting edge--but it c...

  • Julia and the Bazooka

    Anna Kavan

  • The Bluebeard Room

    Carolyn Keene

    A DATE WITH A BRITISH ROCK STAR... AND A DATE WITH DANGER ON THE CRAGGY COAST OF ENGLAND! Nancy's off to England and a gloomy castle overlooking the cliffs of Cornwall to help her old friend Lisa Harwood, who may be in danger. But when she lands in ...

  • The Phantom of Venice

    Carolyn Keene

    In this thrilling adventure rife with romance and danger, Nancy travels to Venice to investigate the kidnapping of a famous glassblower and the disappearance of an artist....

  • Cimarron and the Gunhawk's Gold

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Glitch

    Ronald Kidd

    A computer-detesting sixth grader finds himself trapped inside a computer and becomes a "glitch," or malfunction, that the computer police must track down, as well as a pawn in the war between rival factions ROM and RAM...

  • Split Second

    Garry Kilworth

    When a young boy, Richard, goes too close to a Wiederhaus Repeater ("greatest archaeological break-through ever. Expose any prehistoric remains to it and it creates, briefly, complete hologrammatic images of the people who were in contact with them a...

  • File

    Penn Kimball

  • The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Stories

    W.P. Kinsella

  • Robbie and the Leap Year Blues

    Norma Klein

  • Talking to the Sun

    Kenneth Koch

  • Northward the Heart

    Maureen Kurr

    Could her passion overpower her pride? Ambyre, lovely young handmaiden of Aelfwyn, former Queen of Mercia, felt nothing but burning hatred for the warlike Danes who had invaded the land. When she was mistaken for Aelfwyn and kidnapped by Raff Olaf...

  • Explosive Meeting

    Charlotte Lamb

    The chemistry was explosive? Annabel's brilliant friend Charlie was a bit of a mad scientist. And although the first explosion he caused at Jerrard's lab in Norfolk had been a minor affair, this last one threatened to get him sacked. Sa...

  • The Winter of the Fisher

    Cameron Langford

  • Falklands Gambit

    Bob Langley

  • Pawns and Symbols

    Majliss Larson

    Threatened by a deadly famine, the Klingon Empire is on the verge of igniting a mad interplanetary war of conquest. When an earthquake destroys a remote Federation research station, Jean Czerny, agricultural scientist, succumbs to amnesia. Stranded o...

  • Dunn's Conundrum

    Stan Lee

    The Librarians, an elite group of American intelligence specialists headed by Harry Dunn, face the moral dilemma of whether or not to release crucial information when the United States and Russia approach nuclear war...

  • Days of Grass

    Tanith Lee

    The free humans lived underground, secretive, like rats. Above, the world was a fearsome place for them -- the open sky a terror, the night so black, and the striding machines from space so laser-flame deadly. Esther dared the open; she saw the sky;...

  • Born to Be One

    Cathie Lenoir

    This is true love, not just words... BETHANY JORDON -- Bethany, a twenty-five year old playwright, has her first break in Los Angeles. Her play about the Apostle John will be a TV drama, starring well-known actor Aaron Steele. Bethany is immediate...

  • Congregation

    Morton Levine

  • Champagne Barn

    Norman Levine

    INCLUDES 23 STORIES WRITTEN BETWEEN 1954 AND 1984. HIGHLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, THE STORIES ARE ALL ABOUT A MAN IN VARIOUS STAGES OF LIFE FROM BOYHOOD TO TH E RCAF IN WORLD WAR 2, RAISING A FAMILY OF DAUGHTERS IN ENGLAND, TO BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL WRITER....

  • The Ruthie Greene Show

    Nancy Smiler Levinson

  • Sleeping Dog

    Dick Lochte

    This is the story of a girl and her dog...and the tough, middle-aged private eye she hires to find her pitbull Groucho. It's a tale of sunny, smoogy Southern California, where 60s flower power still fourishes amid the Mexican Mafia of the 80s...and a...

  • Jailbreak Moon

    Jake Logan

    THERE'S NOT A SANE MAN IN ARIZONA WHO WANTS TO DO TIME IN YUMA PRISON. That is, no one except John Slocum. But there's a method to his madness -- Slocum is offered $30,000 to get a rich cattleman's son out of that godforsaken jail. First, though. he'...

  • The Boy Next Door

    Chris Loken

    One sub-zero New Year's Eve, Linda Lou Craig is, according to her fiancée Bill Ray Brown, dropped off at her house after their date. The next morning her mother discovers her bed has not been slept in, Linda has vanished. The police can find no trac...

  • Enemy Mine

    Barry B. Longyear

    Enemy Mine—The Nebula and Hugo Award winner that inspired the 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett, Jr.<BR <BR The story of a man, incomplete in himself, taught to be a hu...

  • Beyond the Sound of Guns

    Emilie Loring

    A Sister's Devotion -- As the Second World War raged across the world, lovely, raven-haired Kit Marlowe and her brother sought peace and quiet at her brother's Double-H Ranch. Then war came to this remote cattle country. Enemy agents were stealing th...

  • Blossom Into Love

    Norma Jean Lutz

  • Satan's Cage

    John Mackie

    Only the winners survive! To the victor go no spoils in the bloody battle for New Guinea. This is the Rat Bastards’ kind of war. They don’t fight for glory, but for survival. Reluctant heroes and outlaw soldiers, they hate the steaming, Jap-fille...

  • Getting out the Ghost

    Jeffrey Marlin

  • Bloody Kin

    Margaret Maron

    In the South, they like to keep it in the family... Even murder! -- When Jake Honeycutt died in a hunting accident, his wife, Kate, hoped that moving to his family farm in North Carolina would help heal her grief and provide a home for their unborn...

  • Final Harbor

    David Lozell Martin

    During October, a melange of colorful, eccentric, and lunatic characters flocks to the scenic village of Harpers Ferry, including America's Ascending Virgin Collen Timmerand, a young lady with a mission...

  • A Time and a Season

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Reno Martin's timing was perfect. Katie was nearly frozen after spending hours on the roadside in her broken-down van. As the icy rain gave way to snow, she was grateful to be rescued--even if her hero was an obstinate stranger. Snowbound with...

  • When the Splendor Falls

    Laurie McBain

    TWO POWERFUL FAMILIES... ONE MAGNIFICENT PASSION... SWEPT BY THE RAGING WINDS OF DESTINY It was the last summer of paradise, an innocent time of picnics among the lush bluegrass and midnight balls under gaily painted Chinese lanterns. For Leigh...

  • The Last Buffalo Hunt

    Gary McCarthy

    Thomas Atherton accepts the challenge to hunt the nearly extinct buffalo for a five-thousand-dollar prize, but savage Indians, miserable weather, elusive herds, sinister outlaws, and corrupt Indian agents turn a difficult job into an impossible task...

  • Panda's Playtime

    Dick McCue

  • The Golden Lily

    Jan McGowan

    Leslie was a tiny, courageous beauty, whisked by a dashing confederate smuggler into a world of danger and desire. Deep in a Florida Swamp, Leslie Gordon lived off the land by her wits and daring, awaiting the return of her renegade father. Then Ryan...

  • Love Is All That Matters

    Tate McKenna

    From the moment Araby Gilbert met him, Nashville composer Daul McNeal struck a jarring note. What was she, a renowned professor of poetry, doing rubbing shoulders with such an obvious hayseed? No matter Daul's claims to special musical talents, the m...

  • Escape from New York

    Mike McQuay

  • Everafter

    Trevor Meldal-Johnsen